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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. THE NEW HOME. Dun. This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. San. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved nwnsionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze, buttress, Nor coigne of vantage, but this bird hath made His pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they Most breed and haunt, I have observed, the air Is delicate. Siiakspeark. Mrs. Douglass set off with a heavy heart. She clung, with the fondest feelings, to her husband. The scenes which had deprived her of sleep the previous night only put her womanly love to the test. and made it burn with increasing constancy and tenderness. Her heart never went forth to her dear George, her adored husband, with such perfect abandonment. She realized how much it must have cost him to deny for two long years an appetite of such overmastering strength; and he had done it out of regard to her and her children. Virtue practised against such force of resistance seemed to her four-fold more praiseworthy. 0, my George, my dearest George at what a cost have you maintained so long your temperance Your appetite has become your misfortune more than your crime. Your crime was in first yielding to the preposterous customs of society. Your wife will love you, George; yes, she will teach her children to love you. She will love you the more that others hate and despise you. Yes, George you are my own dear, generous, noble and faithful husband; and all I desire, except ? except ? what you cannot help ? an appetite for strong drink, over which you mourn, more than wife or children, or any one else. I will comfort you, George; yes, I will. Duty and affection alike dictate that I should soothe your ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217507196 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217507190 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $21.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 270 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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